Hollywood effects artist shows off skills in Elyria

By
Richard Payerchin, The Morning Journal

Sunday, October 20, 2013

ELYRIA — One of Hollywood’s top zombie makers brought her makeup and brush to Elyria for some pre-Halloween fun.
Special effects artist Bobbie “Bloody Mary” Weiner visited Hauntville on Saturday with pointers for actors at the haunted house and local fans of facepaint.
She and about 20 people spent two hours applying zombie makeup and burn effects to models, who won prizes for the best looking zombies, who also were the scariest and goriest looking zombies.
Weiner first was dubbed “Bloody Mary” while working on the horror film “Pumpkin Head II.” Her big break came while working as a special effect makeup artist on the blockbuster “Titanic,” directed by James Cameron.
Since then Weiner has developed her own Bloody Mary makeup line for Halloween effects. She also provides face paint for sports fans and supplies camouflage paint to the U.S. Military.
Hauntville Owner Derek Vitas has known Weiner for years and he invited her to Ohio to visit the Elyria scare center and SpookyRanch in Columbia Township.
“We thought it would be cool to open it up,” Vitas said.
As she painted the face of one of Hauntville’s actors, Weiner offered several tips to the crowd. About half the group applied the makeup to other people, using the tips she had given.
• Daub red so it looks like it is dripping out of the ears.
• Use some black blood and scab makeup. Human blood turns black when it no longer has oxygen in it.
• Don’t forget the neck and hands. Weiner said she can tell a good makeup artist from a bad one when an actor’s face looks great but the hands look awful.
• Put blood on the knuckles. “That’s when the person’s crawling and they scrape. Their knuckles get scraped up,” she said.
The crowd absorbed the lessons well and Brianna Toler, 19, of Elyria, was voted one of the top zombies. As Haylee Hans, 20, applied the makeup, another friend used a stage whisper to tell Toler: “You look disgusting but it’s awesome.”
For more information see:
• http://www.dearbloodymary.com/
• http://www.elyriahauntedhouse.com